I have been publishing tips for better websites on https://todaydata.com for quite a while now, with a rate of approximately one per month. It occurred to me that these tips would make a good news feed that people could read in Feedly or any other news reader. To do this, I created a “feed” view, […]

If you run a “Performance” audit on your webpage, either using the stand-alone Google Lighthouse extension or by using the Audit option of Chrome, Google will present to you “Opportunities” to improve page load speed. If your files are not “Compressed”, Google will always present “Compression” to you as an opportunity. How does compression work? […]

If one of your WordPress pages requires a special sidebar, you can create a special page template for that page. But it can be much more efficient to just create a dynamic sidebar just for this page. A Trade Show Example In this example, a “Trade Shows” page requires a sidebar of special advertisers that […]

Filtering an IPV6 address in Google Analytics. Google Analytics will use your IPv6 address. You may have a website where you want to exclude your own page views and other events from the Google Analytics counts. You can create a view with an IP filter to filter out your own IP and the IP of […]

How to override variables in Bootstrap 4. If you are moving from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 4, you may suddenly have trouble defining your theme colors. This is because Bootstrap 3 traditionally used LESS and Bootstrap 4 now defaults to SASS. Variables in SASS vs. LESS Like LESS, SASS is a superset of CSS, in […]